Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
And as long as society awards personhood to non-autonomous humans, such as the very young, the severely retarded, and the persistently vegetative, then it must also award basic rights, as a matter of equality as well, to nonhuman animals with practical autonomy. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap.
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